Social Networking sites have never been blocked at the museums I
have been associated with, and my guess is this is as a result of the fact that
the museums want to leverage Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc. I know the
Walters was incredibly concerned with bandwidth being used to watch videos on
YouTube, but with this being chosen as the purveyor of video content for many
institutions (including the Walters themselves) there was no way to completely
block access – many valuable tutorials, commentaries, etc have been posted
there and some are required for staff to do their jobs.
Access to instant messaging services such as AOL(AIM) , Yahoo Instant
Messenger, Google chat were all disabled.
Chad Petrovay |
Collections Database Administrator |
MIM—Musical Instrument Museum
8550 S. Priest Drive | Tempe, AZ 85284
| 480.481.2460 main
www.themim.org
From: The Museum System
(TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David
Armstrong
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:08 PM
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Subject: Non-TMS, Museum related question
Hello everyone,
This isn’t TMS
related, so if you want to reply off list, that is probably the best way to do
it.
My question has to do
with policies regarding access to social networking sites at your
institution. By social networking, I mean Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn,
etc. Does your organization allow them? If not, why not?
For the longest time,
MOCA has prevented most of the staff from accessing social networking
sites. They have been blocked mostly do to security concerns, and also
bandwidth concerns (ie, links to YouTube and other streaming video).
There is some discussion about allowing access to them, and part of that
discussion involves an interest in knowing what sort of policies other
organizations have. I’m interested in whatever anyone has to say on
the subject.
On a related tangent,
are there other listserv or similar resources for more general museum
discussions (like this one)?
David Armstrong
Database
Administrator
MOCA THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART